REPORT OP THE COUNCIL TO THE GENERAL COMMITTEE, xlix 



published by Government, the whole may be produced in a complete and 

 creditable form, and be placed within the reach of the public at a moderate 

 price, and given to foreign institutions of science, from which returns of like 

 nature may be expected. 



" To fulfil these conditions, to render the publication possible, and to make 

 it useful by a sufficient series of illustrations, would probably require a sum 

 not exceeding £500." 



The Council has now the pleasure of stating, that Sir Robert Peel has con- 

 sented to Mr. Forbes's work being published at the expense of Her Majesty's 

 Government, under the superintendence of the Comptroller-General of Sta- 

 tionery, and agreeably to the plan submitted by the General Secretaries, viz. 

 that the publication should consist of about 300 pages of text in octavo, and 

 about 100 plates; 500copiestobe printed of the text, and the plates to be taken 

 off as required ; that 50 copies should be presented in the name of the British 

 Government to publiclibraries and institutions at home and abroad, according 

 toa list to be furnished; that 50 copies should be at the disposal of Mr, Forbes, 

 to be presented to persons who had assisted in his researches, or contributed 

 towards the work ; and that the remainder of the copies should be sold at a 

 price considerably less than that of their cost. 



4. The Council reports that the General Treasurer has received from Her 

 Majesty's Treasury the sumof £1000, granted by Government for the publica- 

 tion of the Catalogue of Stars in the ' Histoire Celeste ' of Lalande, and of La- 

 caille's ' Catalogue of Stars in the Southern Hemisphere.' 



5. The Council reports that the railway geological sections and documents 

 connected therewith, which had been made at the expense of the British Asso- 

 ciation at a cost of £363 6^. 9d., have been transferred to the Museum of 

 CEconomic Geology, upon theassurance that these sections and documents shall 

 be open to the public, as other documents in the Mining Record Office at the 

 Museum now are, and with the understanding that the sections are to be con- 

 tinued by the authority and at the expense of Government, for which purpose 

 a sum of £250 has been taken on the estimates of the Museum of CEconomic 

 Geology for 1844 — 45. 



6. The Council has added the name of Dr. Langberg, of Cliristiania, to the 

 list of Corresponding Members of the British Association. 



7. TheCouncil has requested Professor Wheatstone to prepare a Report on 

 the performance of the Self-registering Meteorological Apparatus belonging 

 to the Observatory at Kew, and to present it at the Meeting at York. 



8. The Council has requested Messrs. Wheatstone and Ronalds to prepare 

 a Report on the performance of the Electrical Apparatus established at Kew, 

 and on the results obtained with it ; to be presented at the Meeting at York. 



9. The Council, having ascertained that the Earl of Rosse, President of the 

 Association, would not be indisposed to communicate to the Meeting at York 

 an account of the recent improvements which he has effected in the construc- 

 tion of Reflecting Telescopes, has requested His Lordship to prepare a Report 

 on that subject ; to be presented at the York Meeting. 



10. It having been stated to the Council that since the electrical apparatus 

 has been fitted up in the cupola of the Kew Observatory, Mr. Galloway has 

 been required, in addition to the general duties for which he was engaged, to 

 attend to its registry every day from half an hour before sunrise until night ; 

 and that the same constant attendance would continue to be required of him 

 for this and other meteorological registries, the Council has increased Mr. Gallo- 

 way's salary to One Guinea a week, on the understanding that for this salary 

 his whole time should be at the service of the Association. 



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